The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think,… — John Green Copy Share Image
The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments. — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Is bread the better for kneading? so is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune…Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction;… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps… — John Brown Copy Share Image
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
My father,” she admitted, “was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured.” She paused. “Though he did die. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“The main recipients of injustice in any society are the afflicted the distressed and the troubled one, both in soul and in… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets,… — George Downame Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Affliction is not some test that simply exists to build our character. It beats us up. It changes us. It sobers us.… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal… — Israel Regardie Copy Share Image
Affliction is the good man's shining scene; prosperity conceals his brightest ray; as night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
